My colleagues and I put ourselves between Shell’s Polar Pioneer oil drilling rig and its destination in the Arctic. I still feel the sway of the sea from spending the night on the Solar Pioneer barge, a floating organizing platform that serves as a beacon of hope in West Seattle. Even though the rig got through our blockade, I know our action was one of many to come as people around the world wake up to not just the dangers of Arctic drilling but the planetary suicide that our current fossil fuel dependent system spells.

In just eight weeks, a global Greenpeace campaign transformed Nestlé from a company driving rainforest destruction, to one pioneering an ambitious new policy to ensure its products have a zero deforestation footprint.